So two guys in their twenties decided to do a backpack trip across Europe for summer vacation.Being guys they were so very careful with their money and got stranded in the French country side with only $10 left to their names. One guy turns to the other, "what the heck are we going to do, we still have three weeks of vacation left?" the other fellow grabs the $10 and shouts that he knows what to do while running down the street to the corner store.

A few minutes later he returns with a box of tampons. The first fellow looks at him and says"What are these? Tampons! how is this gong to help?"The second looks at him blankly "What do you mean, with these things we can now go Horseback Riding, Cycling, Swimming etc..."

So two guys in their twenties decided to do a backpack trip across Europe for summer vacation.Being guys they were so very careful with their money and got stranded in the French country side with only $10 left to their names. One guy turns to the other, "what the heck are we going to do, we still have three weeks of vacation left?" the other fellow grabs the $10 and shouts that he knows what to do while running down the street to the corner store.

A few minutes later he returns with a box of tampons. The first fellow looks at him and says"What are these? Tampons! how is this gong to help?"The second looks at him blankly "What do you mean, with these things we can now go Horseback Riding, Cycling, Swimming etc..."

Don't worry miggy. You don't have to feel left out, ...you can always use them for ...nosebleeds.

Why not, when my son was really small he came out with one in his ear and was telling me he was cleaning his ears. Too funny, then when I went into the bathroom to see what he was getting into, he pointed to all the pads stuck on the walls and door and said "look mommy...stickers". I don't think I ever laughed so hard in all my life.

Lol, I don't know any bowlers... I read it somewhere, along with how a Marine saved his buddy's life by sticking a tampoon into his wound to keep him from bleeding to death. Also, apparently maxi pads with wings are good for cleaning... you just wrap the sticky part around your hand and go...

It comes from an e-mail exchange between and mom and her marine son. He was getting care packages destined for female by mistake...

"My son said they had the most fun with Marine X’s package. He said he wasn't sure who we were sending the pack to, but the panties were size 20, and he said one of the guys got on top of the humvee and jumped off with the panties over his head and yelled, "Look at me, I'm an Airborne Ranger!!!!". He said one of the guys attached the panties to an antenna and it blew in the wind like a windsock. He said it entertained them for quite awhile.

Then of course, they had the tampons. When he brought this up my imagination was just running wild, but I let him continue. My son said they had to go on a mission and Marine X wanted the chapstick and lotion for the trip. He grabbed a bunch of the items out of his care package and got in the humvee. As luck would have it he grabbed the tampons, and My son said everyone was teasing him about "not forgetting his feminine hygiene products".

My son said things were going well, and then the convoy was ambushed. He said a Marine in the convoy was shot. He said the wound was pretty clean, but it was deep. He said they were administering first aid but couldn't get the bleeding to slow down, and someone said, "Hey use Marine X’s tampons". My son said they put the tampon in the wound. At this point my son profoundly told me, "Mom did you know that tampons expand?" ) "Well, yeah!".

They successfully slowed the bleeding and got the guy medical attention. When they went to check on him later the surgeon told them, "You guys saved his life". If you hadn't stopped that bleeding he would have bled to death. My son said, "Mom, the tampons sent by the Marine Moms by mistake saved a Marines life." At this point I asked him, "Well what did you do with the rest of the tampons?" He said, "Oh, we divided them up and we all have them in our flak jackets, and I kept two for our first aid kit".

I'd never understood why tampons went all long instead of going sideways like they do on the adverts. & I have never been able to get one in without an applicator.

Like ~flower~, I figured it was my internal muscles and the fact that I did not have children (and when I have a cervical smear they have to use the smallest size instrument thingy).

It's not exactly a subject which women ordinarily talk about, so it's good, I think, to discuss this subject on a forum.

Thank you so much for the information in this thread (which really should run for 100 pages).

Unfortunately I still can't do the little ones that you shove in with a finger, just can't get them in. The only way I can get a tampon in is to lie on my back and I'm only able to use the mini ones with cardboard applicators. They used to come with plastic applicators, but I think they did away with those because people flushed them and they ended up as debris on the beach along with all the condoms.

A woman walks into a drug store to buy tampons. She notices tampons stacked on a table in a far corner with a sign on them saying, "5 boxes for a dollar" The woman just couldn't believe this price so she asked the clerk if it was correct. He said, "Yes, five for a dollar." She said, "That can't be right!" Clerk says, "See here? Five boxes for a dollar, no strings attached."xL(I once had to go to the doctor (the day after the night before), to get help to get one out, because I'd lost or couldn't find the string...

That was actually pretty funny but i'm drinking wine, too, so that might have helped the giggle